Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 October 2025 2025 - October BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Spooktacular Autumn Jam recorded on October 15, 2025, at the Ottawa Masonic Centre with a full house of enthusiastic ukers! We're in Ottawa Ontario Canada - join us to strum, sing, and be merry! It's FUN! And you don't need to be any good.
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Featured BUG Jam 11/25 16 October 2025 BUG Jam Live! November 19, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 12/25 16 October 2025 BUG Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam! December 10, 2025 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 27 October 2015 Forty-Five Years Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition
Songs 7 October 2015 Don't Go Into That Barn This Tom Waits 2004 song seems to have been based on the 2003 NY Times account of a slave jail in Northern KY, just upriver from Cincinnati.
Songs 8 September 2015 Sweet Caroline "Sweet Caroline" is a song written and performed by American recording artist Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16, 1969, as a single with the title "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)".
Songs 1 July 2015 Mellow Yellow "Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan.
Songs 5 June 2015 This Land Is Your Land "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody. A Canadian version was written and popularized by Canadian folk music group The Travellers in 1955.
Songs 4 June 2015 Canada Day Up Canada Way Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, Connors is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums.
Songs 28 May 2015 First We Take Manhattan "First We Take Manhattan" is a song written by Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by Jennifer Warnes on her 1987 album Famous Blue Raincoat, which consisted entirely of songs written or co-written by Cohen.
Songs 28 May 2015 Lovers In A Dangerous Time "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn and originally released on his 1984 album Stealing Fire.
Songs 10 May 2015 Pussywillows, Cat-Tails "Pussywillows, Cat-tails" is the 8th track on Gordon Lightfoot's third album, "Did She Mention My Name", released in 1968.
Songs 8 May 2015 Cruel To Be Kind "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm, that peaked at No. 12 in both the UK and U.S. charts that summer.
Songs 29 April 2015 Fish And Whistle "Fish And Whistle" is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter John Prine and released in 1978 on his fifth album, Bruised Orange.
Songs 3 April 2015 Rock ‘n’ Roll Song Paul Valdemar Horsdal (born 1 September 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario), commonly known as Valdy, is a Canadian folk and country musician whose solo career began in the early 1970s.
Songs 9 January 2015 Atlantic City "Atlantic City" is a song recorded by Bruce Springsteen, (written by Bruce Springsteen), which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska. Springsteen has often played the song in a full band arrangement in concert.
Songs 4 January 2015 Circle (All My Life’s a Circle) "Circle" is a Harry Chapin song released on the Sniper and Other Love Songs album in 1972. It became the song that he typically finished his concerts with. This song is also known as All My Life's a Circle and Circles.
Songs 9 November 2014 Me And Bobby McGee "Me And Bobby McGee" was written by Kris Kristofferson and first recorded by Roger Miller. Roger Miller was the first artist to have a hit with the song, peaking with it at No. 12 on the US country chart in 1969.
Songs 8 November 2014 Piano Man "Piano Man" is the first single released by Billy Joel. It was released on November 2, 1973, and has been included on several subsequent albums. Joel's first major hit and his signature song, the song peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1974.
Songs 27 October 2014 Little Boxes "Little Boxes" was written by Malvina Reynolds, a social activist and writer of protest songs.
Songs 25 October 2014 Please Don't Bury Me John Edward Prine was an American country folk singer-songwriter. He was active as a composer, recording artist, live performer, and occasional actor from the early 1970s until his death, and was known for an often humorous style of original music that has elements of protest and social commentary.
Songs 20 October 2014 If I Should Fall Behind "If I Should Fall Behind" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen for his 1992 album Lucky Town.
Songs 6 July 2014 Taxi "Taxi" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin from his 1972 album Heads & Tales.
Songs 15 June 2014 When I First Stepped In A Canoe "When I First Stepped In A Canoe" is a song written by Ottawa based singer-songwriter Shelley Posen in 2004 and can be found on the CD, Canoe Songs 1.
Songs 8 June 2014 Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, The "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in 1976 to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
Songs 2 June 2014 Blackfly Song, The "The Black Fly Song" is a song written in 1949 by Canadian singer-songwriter, Wade Hemsworth, about working in the wilds of Northern Ontario. It is an enduring classic of Canadian folk music, covered by a variety of other artists.
Songs 7 April 2014 Handle With Care "Handle with Care" is the first track from the Traveling Wilburys 1988 album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, and the group's most successful single.
